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“Success to me is being able to have choice” Nicole Smith on She Built That If you had of asked my guest Nicole Smith in her 20’s if she was going to be an entrepreneur her answer would have been a very solid No. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs as well as an ex-husband who was an entrepreneur, she was very familiar with the uncertainty associated with running your own company and was quite content working in her senior role at one of the biggest tech companies in the world, Microsoft. That was until a trip with her best friend to Paris changed her life. The trip had ignited a business idea that she could not shake, and after bouncing the idea off of a couple of close friends and family and celebrating a milestone 40th birthday Nicole thought to herself, If not now, when and thus Flytographer was born. Two years and almost 10 staff later, Nicole is running the company of her dreams all on her own terms. Flytographer has been featured on CBC’s Dragons’ Den and has garnered international media attention in